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When Wade hunches over his banjo, he is a figure of rapturous communion, a man lost in a love affair with an instrument. The songs may be poignantly plaintive, boisterously celebratory or ironically funny. His fingers pluck the strings with steely precision or waft over them like a passing zephyr. Always there is the pulsing drive of his ever moving feet, percussively accenting the chords and the words...
...follows that the bishop does not favor rich viands, even for an occasional guest. A recent lunch visitor found himself dispatched to the garden to pluck a lettuce. As he rinsed it he was confronted with a choice between fish-head soup and lentil soup. (Not straight fish heads, the host explained. Those go for fertilizer. Rather a nourishing fish-head broth.) The guest chose lentils. Followed by some lettuce leaves, drenched in dill-pickle juice, and then by rolls (left by a neighbor) that the bishop turned into dessert by adding some home-grown rhubarb. Such frugality...
...intrepid WHRB reporters, at the conclusion of Kennedy's remarks, had the foresight to leap into the back of his cab, ignoring the protests of Secret Service men. The reporters fortunately had one of the early portable tape recorders with them. Kennedy was so taken aback by their pluck that he submitted to an interview all the way to the airport...
...courage. When a group of Christians trying to escape from East Beirut came under Syrian machine-gun fire, their leader shouted, 'Let's keep going! It's better to be shot standing up than getting it in the back on the ground!' That kind of pluck would, of course, be put to better use in a peaceful Lebanon. But as a Christian militiaman grimly forecast last week, 'We are prepared to fight for the next 40 years...
...Elis (1-0 league, 2-1 overall) were hoist with their own petard when coach Carm Cozza decided to go for a two-point conversion while trailing, 28-27, with 1:28 to go. The bold stratagem failed when end John Spagnola (nine catches for 153 yards) could not pluck quarterback Pat O'Brien's pass out of a crowd in the endzone...